Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
11.01.1933 - 30.07.2022 (89 years) (Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan)
Kiyoshi Kobayashi (小林 清志, Kobayashi Kiyoshi, January 11, 1933 – July 30, 2022) was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo. He was attached to the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He was a graduate of the Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa High School and the arts department of Nihon University. He was best known for his roles in Yōkai Ningen Bem (as Bem), the Lupin III series (as Daisuke Jigen), the Droopy cartoons (as the Wolf) and Shazzan (as Shazzan). As a narrator, he is best known for narrating Shukan Oriraji Keizaihakusho and Hikari Ota's If I Were Prime Minister... Secretary Tanaka. Also, he was the official dub-over voice of James Coburn and Lee Marvin. In 2021, he retired from his role as the voice of Daisuke Jigen, after over 50 years of service.His talent management agency Haikyo announced that he died on July 30, 2022, due to pneumonia.